Funny story from my childhood: Saw this game for the first time at my neighbor's house when I was 8. Spaceships were my geek fantasy (ty Star Trek) and the idea of getting to pilot one was my idea of getting laid. I wanted this game so bad but $50 wasn't even something Santa Claus could deliver. Besides, I had been banned from the local electronics store because I kept autistically stroking LCD screens to see the finger rainbows. Inspired by a lil too much sci-fi, I hatched a nefarious plan to steal it from his computer. I had shoplifted a copy of Wildcat BBS from a tech book at Books-a-Million (sorry yall). My plan was to get him to connect to my BBS, then ANSI bomb his computer into uploading the game to me. I spent all damn summer working on it. At one point, I got *something* to work, but I have no idea what was actually getting uploaded or if I had just hacked myself somehow. It turns out that you're not getting very far over a 14.4 modem lol. Even when I thought I almost had something, he'd disconnect and leave me with a corrupted file. Resuming a download was not a thing back then. At the end of summer, I fessed up to him about my scheme and he's like, "oh I haven't played that game in months, here you can have it". 🤦 What lesson did I learn? Nothin. I keep building shit first before talking to people. Story of my life. Well, at least I'm having a good time.